Inspiring Yourself Quotes

The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens. ~ Beyonce Knowles

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others. ~ Deepak Chopra

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways. ~ Marge Piercy

May you dream great dreams. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life. ~ Tony Dungy

This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There's no greater joy than being able to touch People's hearts. ~ Ana Claudia Antunes

God gives courage for us to triumph in any trouble. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. ~ Bikram Choudhury

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah. ~ Umar

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Anger is Always built upon a foundation of fear and suffering. ~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things that make your lives joyful and sweet. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time. ~ Russell Simmons

You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool. ~ Jenna Woginrich

Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you. ~ Tony Robbins

We can do the work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now. ~ Abhijit Naskar

There is divinity in every soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We live in a world of cause and effect. ~ T. Harv Eker

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto this illusion, even though he knows it's not true. ~ John Steinbeck

Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains.
( " Labyrinth of the mind " ) ~ Erik Pevernagie

Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody. ~ Donna Freitas

Stupidity arise for unwillingness to study. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves. ~ Hal Edward Runkel

You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. ~ Alan Watts

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. ~ Kate Winslet

There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That's just encouraging and inspiring. ~ Blake Lively

I think that Diwata does not fit that mold. She's loud, she's a huge personality, she's imposing. I don't know if I'm the same thing in that sense, but what gives me the joy in playing her is the total rejection of needing to fit in. It's so inspiring. ~ Sarah Steele

I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is not, of course, translated into another language but it is a translation from the images in the author's mind to that which he is able to put down on paper. Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. It's one of the heartbreaks of writing fiction. You have, for months or years, been walking around with the idea of a novel in your mind, and in your mind it's transcendent, it's brilliantly comic and howlingly tragic, it contains everything you know, and everything you can imagine, about human life on the planet earth. It is vast and mysterious and awe-inspiring. It is a cathedral made of fire. But even if the book in question turns out fairly well, it's never the book that you'd hoped to write. It's smaller than the book you'd hoped to write. It is an object, a collection of sentences, and it does not remotely resemble a cathedral made of fire. It feels, in short, like a rather inept translation of a mythical great work. The translator, then, is simply moving the book another step along the translation continuum. The translator is translating a translation. ~ Michael Cunningham

Amateurs quit when they are tired. Champions quit only when they have won. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What a great pleasure to work for your living? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists. ~ Vince Gill